Huckabee Stumps For Iowa Anti-Gay Marriage Candidate

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February 26, 2010

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
returned to Iowa Wednesday to support the gubernatorial candidacy of
businessman Bob Vander Plaats, the most vociferous opponent of gay
marriage running for the job.

Speaking to a crowd of about 100 people
at a fundraiser for the Iowa
Family PAC, the political action committee managed by the Iowa
Family Policy Center Action, a group that opposes gay rights,
Huckabee called Vander Plaats an ideal candidate.

“If Bob were governor, Iowa would not
be one of those states that people scratched their heads and say,
'They have same-sex marriage?'” Huckabee said.

While all Republican Iowa gubernatorial
candidates have sided with social conservatives who are rankled at
Democratic leaders for blocking a resolution calling for an amendment
in the Iowa constitution that would ban gay marriage and reverse last
year's state Supreme Court order legalizing the institution, Vander
Plaats, who often speaks about the issue at anti-gay marriage
rallies, has a padlock on the issue. He's pledged, if elected, to
halt gay weddings with an executive order until the issue is decided
by voters. Most analysts have said such a move would not be legal.

“Having been a governor for 10 and a
half years, I think I know something about the qualities that make
for a good governor. I find every one in Bob,” he added.

The former Baptist minister does not
believe gays should be allowed to serve in the military and supports
a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a heterosexual union.

In November, he told CBS' Katie Couric
that if you alter marriage to include gay couples “then there is
really no limit” to how it might be defined and suggested polygamy
would soon follow.

Huckabee also told attendees that 2010
would be a turning point for the GOP.